Vinicius Martins từ Donino, Moskovskaya oblast', Russia

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“Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything” by Joshua Foer is a memoir of the author’s attempted to win the U.S. memory championship. Along the way Mr. Foer attempts to explain some tricks, techniques and the science around memory. The book follows the gripping journey taken by Joshua Foer as he participates in the U.S. Memory Championship. As a science journalist Foer becomes interested in the champions’ secrets as well as the secrets of the brain which we still do not fully understand. Foer learns how to naturally memorize information with the help of experts and to master techniques which make memorization easier. “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything” by Joshua Foer is a fabulous memoir which is not only personal and informative, but also highly entertaining. As a journalist, Mr. Foer became interested in those “mental athletes” who can memorize random data (order of packs of cards, long lists, etc.) when he covered the U.S. Memory Championship as an assignment. As he researched more into this area he became intrigued and wondered if he could do it also. At the start of his research, Mr. Foer went to meet psychologist Anders Ericsson who studies those with exceptional memory. “SF” can remember 80 digits after a single hearing, for example. During Foer’s attempt, Ericsson would study him – a man without an exceptional memory. However, in a very poignant part of the book he also meets with a man who completely lost his short term memory. Over the next year Foer studied hard to improve his memory, or rather improve memorizing random stuff (there is a difference as we find out). The path we find ourselves going along with Mr. Foer on his journey is delightful, inventing and funny, the people he meets are interesting and quirky. Experiment: Is the human mind really susceptible to the clever tricks Mr. Foer describes in his book? I attempted to find out. One of the memorization techniques involves a “memory palace” and is supposedly a very old method. The technique involves imagining yourself walking around a familiar building and placing objects on a list in that building (your home, first grad class, grandma’s home, etc.). Supposedly if you walk your way through that “memory palace” again you should be able to retrieve those items without an issue. On pages 92-93 Mr. Foer describes his first memorization list given to him in Central Park by English memory champion Ed Cooke (Pickled garlic, Cottage cheese, salmon, six bottles of white wine, socks, three hula hoops, snorkel, dry ice machine, email Sophia, etc.) As I walked though my home, in my mind, I placed all fifteen items around my house (using quirky stories such as having three Hawaiian dancers perform with hula hoops on my son’s train table) and, believe it or not, it worked. It amazed me so much I came home and asked my wife to do the same thing. Guess what? She did and she was amazed as well. Over the next several days we challenged one another, in random places, to name the list. As it turned out, learning memorization was a part of every school curriculum in the early years of the country – however, from some reason, it has been abandoned. That’s too bad. For more reviews please visit http://www.ManOfLaBook.com

Người đọc Vinicius Martins từ Donino, Moskovskaya oblast', Russia

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.